Actually tried to go buy World Cup final tickets this morning but we got there too late! People were lining up since last night… guess we will watch the game at home. No big deal.
There were three types of tickets on sale today: $300, $500, and $750. Rumor has it the $300 were sold out before we could get to the ticket window. I don’t think I would have wanted to pay more than $300 for a ticket though, as much as I love football…
It’s been raining every day lately and the temperatures have been really cool for late June. For instance, the low temp. today is 16C. So what is this about global warming? Certainly not in Japan!
Salon in Dire Straits [Slashdot]
I certainly hope this is just a rumor, a false one at that. On or off the web, Salon is one of the best source of investigative news reporting. I find it difficult to go back to other news sites like CNN after subscribing to Salon.
Well what can I say folks- after three weeks of madness, we have come down to the classic matchup for the World Cup final. Will Brasilian football prevail with their entertaining attack football, or will Germans claim their fourth cup with their imposing goalie and stingy defense? May the creative guys win. 
I am normally not an Argentinian fan, but I can’t help but feel that their first round ouster is monumentally tragic given the depth and poise of their players who play beautiful attacking football. Losing France was bad enough; not seeing the Argentinians go through is just a bit too much to bear. And I shudder at the possibility of a Sweden-Denmark final.
I watched one of the greatest World Cup game today in Ireland vs. Germany. Down a goal early in the first half, Ireland kept plugging away and finally scored the equalizer in the 90th minute against the stingy and imposing German defense. Watching the resilient Irish one finds a great lesson not just in soccer but in life: never give up!
They are not called the “Fighting Irish” for nothing.
I apologize for not updating this page more frequently but you do know that the World Cup is on right now…
